98 LATIN TERMS USED IN BOTANY TO DENOTE COLOUR. 
looseness prevails in common speech, where such exaggerated 
expressions as “red-haired” or “black in the face” pass 
current. 
Without wasting time in endeavouring to ascertain the precise 
use of colour-terms during the period when Latin was in common 
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nding much time on this quest, I have been forced to the 
conviction that great confusion actually exists as to the meaning of 
many of the words employed to connote colours. Botanists can and 
again may be varied almost infinitely by dilution or the addition of 
or of b Th 
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resultant hues of the blending of so many secondary and tertiary 
with primary colours is to produce mixtures which an artist, whose 
f colour from @ 
naturalist, whose concern is naturally chiefly engrossed with 
questions of form and function. 
on account of the numerons terms centering round them. Many 
compound terms exist, but only those which are often used are cited 
in this list. 
